PROOF JERKY JOCKS CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING
GOOFY NBA dribbler Kyrie Irving’s scandals over vaccines and bizarre conspiracies prove two things — he shouldn’t have left college for the pros after one year of higher education and fat-cat team owners don’t give a damn about how disgraceful a player is if he can score points and sell tickets.
Irving’s big troubles began in 2017 when he published a tweet saying — and you can’t make this up — the Earth is flat! Yup. Even third graders know that’s not true!
Kyrie later apologized, explaining he was “huge into conspiracies.”
Then in the midst of the COVID pandemic, he refused to get a shot and was forced to sit out much of the 2020 season with the Brooklyn Nets.
His reason: Vaccines contain microchips and are a plot by “secret societies to connect Black people to a master computer for a plan of Satan.”
Last October, he tweeted a link for the film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America that denies the Nazi Holocaust horror and claims Jews worship Satan.
He was suspended eight games before texting an apology, which he’s since removed.
But let’s get things straight: The Constitution of America gives us all the right to believe in anything and pretty much say anything even if distasteful or a full-blown lie. In that regard, we’ve got Kyrie’s back.
But NBA jocks aren’t just point scorers, they’re role models.
So if an athlete, or frankly anyone else, is spreading nonsense then he’s an influencing danger to adoring young fans. But maybe Mr. Irving doesn’t know that.
Kyrie was born in Australia to a Black father, who was a former Boston College basketball player, and a mom who is half Black and half Lakota Sioux.
Due to his hoop skills, he went to Duke University, a basketball and academic powerhouse.
He split after just a year in 2011 for the NBA and big money with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
That’s too bad because his apparent ignorance suggests he needed more years at Duke!
Now, you’d think his $36 million NBA career would go belly up after his antiSemitic outbursts and old-fashioned stupidity!
WRONG!
Thanks to his dazzling hoop skills, this looney tune got traded to the Dallas Mavericks, who are eagerly paying him a whopping $52 million a year for the next four years. Yes, Kyrie got a raise!
We don’t know who’s more idiotic — Kyrie or the greedy Maverick bigwigs who hired him!